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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1968
Page
4
Editorial argues for a rapid highway boost with bonds for Kansas roads. Governor Docking seeks 350 million over five years including turnpikes. Republicans favor 300 million over ten years and no tax hike. Both aim to fund by gasoline tax increase, which Republicans oppose.
The column notes Russia’s Tolstoy epic War and Peace costs reach $100 million and runs seven hours, shown in two parts in the United States with ticket prices from $5.50 to $7.50. The writer criticizes the length as an endurance test and doubts it will entertain, predicting TV airing as a fate for long films.
Twenty five years ago Tribune Files reported Civil Aeronautics Authority officials will move into the municipal airport building for general inspection headquarters with three inspectors and a secretary. They will supervise Army Air Corps instructors at Dickerhoof Flying Service as the school shifts to an instructors check course. The top floor of the Kay hotel houses students. more space is anticipated. Regular cross country instruction will end as 170 instructors begin work here March 1. A footwear rationing plan limits three pairs per year amid a government restriction. Also noted are local births and various civic moves, with a Bible verse cited from I Corinthians.
President Johnson convened Democratic House and Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees for a secret briefing on the USS Pueblo seizure off North Korea. Top officials Dean Rusk Robert McNamara Clark Clifford Gen Earle Wheeler and Gen Maxwell Taylor attended amid tense exchanges with Sen Tom Dodd who pressed Wheeler on air cover and rescue plans. The briefing proceeded as Johnson urged orderly questions after the initial talks.
Readers ask about excessive underarm sweating and pimples on the back. Dr Molner suggests aluminum chloride solutions, possible formaldehyde treatment, and sweat-gland removal in severe cases, noting triggers include temperature, anxiety, and thyroid activity. He discusses pimples on the back and advises skin care from his booklet, and explains gall bladder visibility on X rays and how dye uptake affects imaging.
Dear Ann Landers shares three reader anecdotes from 1967 about managing anger, aging friendships, and adolescence. A father describes using eggs as a controlled venting tool, a bridge club member advises addressing deafness with care, and a teen seeks dating guidance for acne.
On this date in 1904 the Japanese besieged Port Arthur, starting the Russo Japanese War. Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded in 1587. Mohawk Indians and French attacked Schenectady in 1690. Arkansas seized the Little Rock arsenal in 1861. The Boy Scouts of America formed in 1910. World War II events noted for 1940.
President pressed on questions as Gen. Wheeler explains Pueblo’s risky posture off Korea. He cites 75 MIGs at Wonsan and small ships that could sink or delay rescue, while a delicate mission seeks signs of a second front from North Korea amid Kim’s Diversion talk. Thirty crewmen are top cryptographic experts.
A schedule listing prime time programs across channels with the sequence for 6:30 to 10:00 PM including Daniel Boone Batman Cimarron Strip Flying Nun Bewitched Ironside a Movie Olympics Dragnet F Troop D Martin and The Untouchables with News at 10:00 PM.
The list shows a channel by channel hour by hour grid for February with programs on KVOO WDAF KCMO KOAM KMBC KODE WIBW KUHI, including Today Show Jack LaLanne The Fugitive Batman and daytime game shows and soaps such as Love Splendored Thing and The Edge of Night along with prime time games and movies. It details time slots from 6:30 to 12:00 with multiple networks and shows across days. The snippet reflects a fragmented TV schedule from a historical newspaper page.
TV listings include Wagon Train on CBS at 6 30 p m with Bedrock killings and refugees joining the wagon train Chief Ironside seeks clues in a cryptic talk The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance airs on CBS at 8 p m stars James Stewart John Wayne and Lee Marvin Dean Martin show features Lorne Greene Jane Morgan Red Buttons Skiles and Henderson The Untouchables on ABC at 9 p m follows Eliot Ness as he tracks a clever psychopath posing as a bystander in a hold up on NBC and CBS at 7 30 p m and 9 p m respectively NBC 9 p m program also noted
A trio of clipped items notes political fences to straddle for success, a dig into alimony and a dollar unbacked by metal, and a winter cold as a reminder that even a good disposition stumbles before illness.
In two villages near Warsaw Poland every tenth person was shot in reprisal for the deaths of two German soldiers. In 1955 Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov resigned and was succeeded by Marshal Nikolai A Bulganin.
Chanute Tribune lists staff roles including Publisher Dwight Wallingford and Editor Wayne J. Smith and shares subscription prices for in town and out of town readers, with monthly carrier rates and boxholder options. It notes AP membership and local news rights.
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